BBpress not sharing login details

I’m looking for a wee bit of help here. I’ve just re-installed everything (except my templates) after my host managed to royally screw everything up. Now here’s the issue …

I’ve just installed WPMU 2.7, BP 1.0 RC-1 & BBPress 1.0 Alpha 6 with the aim of getting it to work like I had it running before – I followed Jim Groom’s tutorial and Sam Bauers screencast (like I did before) and all is good except for one thing. When I’m logged in to the site, if I try to go to /forums (I put bbpress just off the root) then i have to log in again – this never happened before.

I can access the forums by posting from a group no problem (even when i’m not logged in to the forum) and can crosspost back from BBpress it all works perfectly except the login.

Delete ALL the salts and keys from your wp-config.php file, visit the Site Admin area of your WordPressMU install, and you’ll get a warning saying you need to add the salts, and it will auto suggest them.

Copy those into your wp-config.php file, and then copy those same keys, put them in your bb-config.php file, but put “BB_” in front of each key name.

Right, I’ve done points 1 to 4, added the salts and added the COOKIE_DOMAIN & COOKIEPATH bits to both config files. I also added a cookie hash which the tutorial said to do. How I got the cookie hash is another story – the tute said to look at the cookies in firefox to see what the number after them would be, like this ‘wordpress_267dtwia78rfn5403n’ when I went in to look at my cookies the looked like this ‘wordpress_’ so i took the nearest number from a PHPSESSID cookie for my site – now, this is probably the stupidest thing I’ve done all day – so please let me know if it is. Also If you could let me know if there’s any other way of finding out the cookiehash.

I’ve tried this and it didn’t work, it just makes me unable to login. I had this same problem earlier in the day until I used that PHPSESSID cookie. I’d be appreciative if you could email me on phil {at} reprocessor dot com so that I can send you a screenshot – I think it may be the way that firefox is presenting cookies (It’s alot different to the last version of FF I used and that’s only a jump from 3.04 to 3.06.)

As I said, any help at all would be greatly appreciated, as it’s driving me up the wall!